Cuarteto Casals - Mozart - Early String | Quartet...

Mozart's very first quartet, featuring a prominent Rondeau finale.

The quartet used a matching set of classical-period bows for this recording, acquired through a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award. Critical Reception Reviews for this specific set were polarized: Cuarteto Casals - Mozart - Early String Quartet...

report on Mozart's Early String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi) is a comprehensive recording project that captures the composer's formative years in the genre, specifically works written between 1770 and 1773. Album Overview Release Date: October 27, 2005. Label: Harmonia Mundi (Catalogue No. HMI 987060.62). Mozart's very first quartet, featuring a prominent Rondeau

Notably fast Andantes and finales that often "tear away" at top speed. Album Overview Release Date: October 27, 2005

The most significant work in the early set, featuring a complex closing fugue.

Reviewers from Gramophone praised the quartet's ability to adapt their style to the teenage Mozart, highlighting the "unusual musical insight" and lack of sentimentality.

The ensemble adopted a for these teenage works, marked by: